Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...Funky Kingston by Toots and the Maytals

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Kultur is a Webblog primarily devoted to the discussion of music but often addressing movies, books, politics, religion, media and popular culture.

This blog offers me the opportunity to develop ideas and receive feedback in an effort to understand why King Solomon states in Ecclesiastes 1:17 (KJV):

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

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Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...Funky Kingston by Toots and the Maytals

(About) 100 Words on...Funky Kingston by Toots and the Maytals

Funky Kingston

Toots and the Maytals

Mango

1973

There is a reason that Rolling Stone magazine selected Funky Kingston as one of the 500 Greatest Albums. It is because it is the best Reggae album recorded. going on 40 years old, Funky Kingston brims with joy and happiness. If Bob Marley is Reggae's Dr. Martin Luther King and Peter Tosh its Malcolm X, then Toots Hibbits is its Louis Armstrong, Jamaican musical ambassador. "Pomp and Pride" alone makes this a perfect recording. If this song does not pull one from the depths nothing can. Follow this with "Louie, Louie" and one has a party in six minutes. I wonder where this disc was when I was in 1973?